Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics

1. Introduction: Relationships and Connections between Literature and Mathematics



Nina Engelhardt, Robert Tubbs







Part 1. Mathematics in Literature







2. Numbered Possibilities: Chaucer and the Evolution of Late-Medieval Mathematics



David Baker







3. Mercantile Arithmetic and Financial Profit in Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass



Joe Jarrett







4. Mathematics and Poetry in the Nineteenth Century



Daniel Brown







5. Non-normative Euclideans: Victorian Literature and the Untaught Geometer



Alice Jenkins







6. Mathematical Contrariness in George Eliot's novels



Derek Ball







7. Mathematics in Russian Avant-garde Literature



Anke Niederbudde







8. Uses of Chaos Theory and Fractal Geometry in Fiction



Alex Kasman







9. Mathematical Clinamen in the Encyclopedic Novel: Pynchon, DeLillo, Wallace



Stuart Taylor







10. Squaring the Circle: A Literary History



Robert Tubbs











Part 2. Mathematics and Literary Forms







11. Mathematics and Poetic Meter



Jason Hall







12. Randomizing Form: Stochastics and Combinatorics in Postwar Literature



Alison James







13. Oulipian Mathematics



Warren Motte







14. Mathematics and Dramaturgy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries



Liliane Campos







15. Nonlinearity, Writing, and Creative Process



Ira Livingston











Part 3. Mathematics, Modernism, and Literature







16. Mathematics and Modernism



Nina Engelhardt







17. Mathematics in German Literature: Paradoxes of Infinity



Howard Pollack-Milgate







18. Ghosts of Departed Quantities: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz



Chris Ackerley







19. 'Numbers have such pretty names': Gertrude Stein's Mathematical Poetics



Anne Brubaker







20. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics I: Mathematics and Composition, with Mallarme, Heisenberg, and Derrida



Arkady Plotnitsky







21. Modernist Literature and Modernist Mathematics II: Mathematics and Event, with Mallarme, Goedel, and Badiou



Arkady Plotnitsky











Part 4. Relations between Literature and Mathematics







22. King Lear, Without the Mathematics: From Reading Mathematics to Reading Mathematically



Travis D. Williams







23. Newton, Burns, and a Poetics of Figure: Toward a Prehistory of Consilience



Matthew Wickman







24. The Mathematics of Associationism in Laurence Sterne's Tristam Shandy



Aaron Ottinger







25. Romantic Parts and Wholes, Statistical and Literary



Margaret Kolb







26. "Colours of the Dying Dolphins": Nineteenth-Century Defences of Literature and Mathematics



Imogen Forbes-Macphail







27. Combinatorial Characters



Andrea Henderson







28. Datelines



Steven Connor







29. The Metaphor as an Equation: Ezra Pound and the Similitudes of Representation



Jocelyn Rodal















Part 5. Mathematics as Literature







30. Rehearsing in the Margins: Mathematical Print and Mathematical Learning in the Early Modern Period



Benjamin Wardhaugh







31. Mathematics, Narrative, and Temporality



Marcus Tomalin







32. A Cognitive and Quantitative Approach to Mathematical Concretization



Marc Alexander

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